Welcome to Module 3

Welcome to Module 3: Physiological Birth

In this module, you will identify the birth sequence patterns for mother/birthing parent and baby that may happen without any interventions. Even though many families strive for births with the least amount of interventions, the patterns without them can also be overwhelming. Your curriculum includes:

  • The midwifery model of care
  • Understanding the birth sequence, natural birth and labor and delivery
  • Identification of pelvis shapes and bony landmarks that the baby encounters in the birth process
  • Learning from the inside out about the baby's experience by identifying your birth journey, and your own sequence
  • How to make repairs for difficult births, part one

The clinical skills you will learn include:

  • Slipping into the space
  • Harmonizing the surround
  • Two layers of support
  • Speeding up and slowing down
    • The importance of "Baby Time"
  • Calling a pause
  • Identifying vectors and compression
  • Leading Edge
  • Deepening and broadening states
  • Creative Opposition, Dynamic Squeeze
  • Double binds
  • Working with birth process on the table
  • Working with birth process on the floor


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